THE HERMISTON HERALD, HEBMISTON, ^OBEG j OIT.
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Published arary Thursday at Her
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Raymond Crowder, Editor and Man
ager.
Entered as second class matter,
December 1906 at the postoffice at
Hermiston, Oregon.
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Getting By
Show us the man who is "getting by
And brags of that fact himself.
And we’ll show you a sort of half-
baked guy.
Who will soon be laid on the shelf
He’s the man Bostonians call a
"slob,”
He’s one of the listless flock.
And he keeps one eye on his hated
Job,
And the other eye on the clock,
And that most certainly means a
visible preparation for another strug
gle.
Today It la possible to observe al
most hour by hour a resist less dest
iny setting the scene for the real
Armageddon, the Last War, of which
the Great War was the preparatory
chapter. The Great War was fought
by Ill-assorted allies who normally
would not have been allies. Now the
natural allies will find each other,
and not the least surprising element
of the new alignment will probably
be that (Germany, perhaps separated
from some of her present kingdoms,
will be lined up with her former en
emies, allies of Britian and America.
Rightly or wrongly, that seems to be
the way the finger is pointing.
persecution of Jews in Poland is one
that needs to be written about Im
partially. The Jews know what ef
fect reports of ’pogroms’ have In the
United States and they often exagg.
erate little Incidents or fabricate en
tirely such tales as will be sure to
draw sympathy for them, ¿a for my
own experience, I can assure you that
no ’pogroms’ or persecution has taken
place In the regions where I have
lived during my stay of three years.”
, For the first time In history a
woman. Mrs. Anna L. Swynnerton, a
painter, has been elected un associate
of the Royal Academy of England.
A qpw cable-way among the clouds
is being built up Mont Blanc. Pas
sengers will be transported in 90
minutes from summer heat to frigid )
cold while snow and ice avalanches
crash harmlessly by. hundred of feet
beneath the suspended cable cars.
Each car will seat 20 persons.
MR. PUP— SALESMAN
The other evening a bunch of us
was seated in a hotel lobby, and
there catne wandering Into our midst
a half-grown pup. His pedigree was
as mixed as boarding-house hash
The undergraduates of Wesleyan
and an X-ray to determine his spinal
and other vertebrae would have been University have voted to abstain
from drinking rum while the college
altogether superfluous.
Is in session. First offenders will
A bell-hop promptly escorted him be Inelltgible for sports or student
through the door. In a few min office. Second offenders will be ex
He curses the fate that makes man utes he waB back again, only to re pelled or suspended. The action out
peat the process.
toll.
lined above was not taken as Jhe re
Shortly thereafter he came trot- sult of any outbreak of drinking at
For the things -that mortals crave.
The fate that thrusts men under the Ing in through another door. He the college but as a further Btep In
had a most ingratiating manner and
soil.
self-government.
he would stop before one or another
To their only rest, the grave.
Oh, not for him i8 tho struggle grim of us with that look of appealing
trustfulness that only children and
And ho winks a knowing eye.
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And tells the toilers whose pleasuses pup dogs can put over.
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Soon
a
hand
was
put
out
to
give
are slim
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him a friendly pat, and the way that
How easy he is "getting by.”
pup and the fellow warmed up to
It Is estimated that one-third of
Pity the men who are "getting by" each other was remarkable; even his
natural enemy, the bell-hop, thawed the 3CO,000 Invested annually In fer
In this game of Existence here;
out and slipped him a hunk of meat tilizers in Oregon is wasted. The
For youthful play old age will pay
he had purloined from the kitchen. farmer should learn the elements
And the price it pays Is dear.
That pup succeeded In being allow most needed In the particular soli
The gate Io success
wide and liigl
And beyond It fair blossoms grow ed to remain where it was warm, to types of his land and plan to supple
Hut the fellow contented with ’get get something to eat, and to make ment with these to build up the gen
friends, because he was a salesman. eral fertility over a period of years.
ting by"
He hnd nothing to sell but himself Many worn grain lands and hill
Will never get by to know.
— Calgary Vivlfier — and hls visible stock in trade was lands of Washington and Oregon re
far from A l, but he knew the fund pond to applications of available
phosphate.
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amentals.
THE MARCH INTO GERMANY
He realized he had a hard proposi
Informed people are not surprised
Vegetable growers have three pos
tion to put over and that he could
by France’s march Into Germany.
not sell unless he could get to the sible markets for their produce and
The wonder is that it has been de
a n well afford to recognize this be
layed so long after being so definite huyerB, so he was persistent.
Putting him out once or twice fore planting heavily to vegetable
ly foreshadowed. But no one Is welt
meunt nothing In hls young life, and crops. They have only the local mar
enough Informed Io see what the end
I really think that he had a sense of ket. the canneries and dehydrators,
shall be. Fiance has determined to go
the advertising value— the attention- and the shipping markets. Produce Is
it alone regardless of world opinion.
creating value— hls "puttings out” generally sent to the shipping mar
She feels that the world does not
and reappearances would create.
kets only when the vegetable is
understand the position and wilfully
Even In the moments of stress dic grown In the community in carload
refuses to share her emotion, and
ing the putttng-out processes ne ots. Some good thinking now may
6he has, therefore, decided to make
ave much In the future especially
the bast of the power she possesses never forgot to be a gentleman.
No; he was a wise dog; he depart toward the end of summer.
to prove herself still to be a factor
in world affairs. Any nation choos ed each time quietly and philosophi
Sulfur 18 very profitable on most
ing that course could become a fact cally, and reappeared the same way,
or In world affairs. It means, on the with hls tail wagging in gentle frend- arid and semi-arid alfalfa lands, es
trouble ostensibly between Greece liness and hls brown eyes searching pecially under irrigation. Potash pays
and Turkey meant, that France Is Into the faces of the humans about on potatoes with certain residual
him, not boldly, not cringlngly, but oils in central Oregon. Except as a
cutting loose from her allies.
with quiet assuredness that com
The cause Is simple: Germany has manded attention— and so he put hls starter and for intensive crops, ni
trogen should be obtained through
not delivered to France the amount proposition across.— Exchange.
'egunie residues and the unlimited |
of coal allotted to her under the re
lupply in the air.
parations agreement. It Is so simple
The Nobel Peace prize has been
that In America It Is difficult to un awarded Fridtjof Nansen, doted Nor
"A considerable acreage of alfal-
derstand what it means. It means wegian explorer. He was promi
principally that with Germany her nent In Russian relief work during 'a will probably be planted on the
self suffering from a serious fuel- the famine of 1921. Dr. Nansen ts river bottom and other of the well
shortage. German workmen revolt at professor of oceanography at Chris- irained soils of western Oregon next
the thought of digging coal the year ilcnla University. He ha8 announ April and May,” says G. R. Hyslop,
round and sending It to France. ced that he will devote the money arm crop8 specialist at the Oregon
There can be no question that, hav awarded him In fostering hls inter Experiment station. "It la a good
ing rendered French mines useles; national task of promoting a brother plan to secure the seed of the genu-
ne Grimm alfalfa before stocks are
by tho scientifically fiendish devast
hood of nations.
icpleted and to anticipate needs for
ation of war Germany Is bound to
andplaster which usually .helps In
repay. Bot that Is not tho only ele
Three-quarters of the mineral ,'etting a stand of alfalfa. The Grimm
ment of the question. Of two men In
bearing area of Alaska has never had alfalfa seed Is usually planted at
a fight, the attacker should be com
a prospector' pick in It.
about 16 pounds to the acre. This ;
pelled Io make good, but If the at
amount may seem excessive to ex- '
tacker himself Is In tho hospital be
During 1922, 7,469 miles of road lerienced alfalfa growers but for ,
cause of tho wounds ho received In
projects were completed In the U. 8. ¡hose who are beginning In alfalfa
his attack, there Is also the ques
and 17,97 8 miles under construction ulture and who often sow seed too
tion of ability to perform; and that
were estimated as 50 per cent com leep. It is usually necessary to sow
ts the situation in Europe. It does not
plete. Federal aid earned by the t slight excess of seed. Inoculating
settle anything to decide where jus
states on »,11 road projects amounted naterlnl may be had at 25 cents an
tice lies, for J t Is a complex of in
to »194,560.135, of which »166.911.- acre from the department of bacterl
justice on all sides which human In
552 had actually been pa d.
ology at the college. The landplaster
genuity has failed to untangle.
is usually applied at about 50 to 76
It all comes to this, probably, that
Chinamen are engaged In captur
the loom of fate Is weaving the ing large sea turtles which abound pounds an acre to the land that is
strands of further unsettlenient and on the western coast of Mexico. The to be planted to alfalfa.”
disaster. The situation must he con meat of these turtles ts dried and
Many persons who grew potatoes
sidered as a whole and not as merely shipped to China where It finds a
good enough to certify lust year sold
French or Germany, and, of course, ready sale.
iff most of their good ones and plant
this is impossible for any European
country to do. This Incident may
Kentucky has another world won ed the inferior stock sorted out of
pass for the present without appar der In Onyx Cave, near Mammoth those sold ns certified seed and in
ent result. It appears to have been Cave. The caverns are close togeth nearly every Instance this stock car
diplomatically managed thus far. er and It Is possible to Include both ried too much disease to certify this
But In the future It spells the line In the same trip. Mammoth Cove year. In sorting potatoes this »'inter
up of a new M< IHei anean alliance, has for more than a century attract, mve out for planting purposes plenty
of good shapely tubers (or next sea
with Polnn«'. Ito i i ami Turkey ed tourists from all over the world.
son’s planting. It Is best not to save
certainly with i ia tiie . a line aeroas
Southern Europe, broken only by (he
From Cracow. Poland, the Rev. H. very small ones as many of these
possible refornl nf Italy to lake pari. H, Benedict, writes: "The subject of tljat seem very ripe or mature have
mosaic. Any potato with a pointed
stein end should be dlscardid.
Dr. J. A. Peed who has been con
fined to a hospital In Portland re
turned home last week.
This is good weather
to get those posts set.
You will have other things
to do in the spring. W e have
an extra good stock of posts
for the price asked. W e sold
a customer this week that had
looked at stocks in other towns
in this vicinity
and then bought of us.
Tura-A-Lum Lumber Co.
R. A. Bro a n io n , Manager.
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Nice Soft Pine
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No Penury for “Tino,”
as He Has Millions Safe
Former King Constantine of
Greece la In no dnnger of being
reduced to the penury which
embittered the last day» of for
mer Emperor Charles of Aus
trla-Hungnry,
according
to
Greek circles In Paris. It la
asserted that Constantine took
precautions against thia long
ago and has lfl.0fl0.0fl0 gold
franca, or about »2 000.000, in
safe Investments, deposited In
New Tork City, Brasil, and
!*ri(xerlam» The manglfleent
W eis of Queen Sophie and the
royal household plate, were
shipped to Switzerland as soon
as the situation in Greece be
came disquieting.
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